Erica Friedman rounds up this week’s yuri news at Okazu. Also, Erica has been annotating the latest Maria-sama ga Miteru novel, and you can find links to her notes here.

Happy times: Yen Press has announced the official release dates for the next three volumes of Yotsuba&!

Evan Minto of Ani-Gamers and Scott VonSchilling of The Anime Almanac visited KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games, an exhibit at The Japan Society of NYC, and posted a guest review at About.com.

Reviews: My review of vol. 1 of Fire Investigator Nanase is up at Graphic Novel Reporter. Over at MadInkBeard, Derik Badman analyzes the structure of Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix. It’s boys’ love vs. boys’s sports in this week’s edition of Manga Minis at Manga Recon. Johanna Draper Carlson posts some short reviews at Comics Worth Reading. Here are some more recent reviews worthy of note; reviews marked with an asterisk (*) contain spoilers so read at your own risk.